Personal attacks etc (was Re: USA: National Security Strategy...)

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Marina wrote:
"Nowadays my emotional reaction to TSA and the like is about the same as it was as a kid passing through E. Germany. PAPERS PLEASE !"
John Kay of the band Steppenwolf is the son of East German immigrants. He came to the states young, but he had a vicious take on it... or was the song The Ostrich about America, even in the 1960s?
 "We'll call you when you're six years oldAnd drag you to the factory
To train your brain for eighteen years
With promise of security
But then you're free
And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign
So you may die in Florida
At the pleasant age of sixty nine

The water's getting hard to drink
We've mangled up the country side
The air will choke you when you breathe
We're all committing suicide

But it's alright
It's progress folks keep pushin' till your body rots
We'll strip the earth of all it's green
And then divide her into parking lots

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

You're free to speak your mind my friend
As long as you agree with me
Don't criticize the father land
Or those who shape your destiny
'Cause if you do
You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
We'll send out all our boys in blue
They'll find a way to silence you

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok
It sounds like... https://youtube.com/watch?v=8SeUqDjPeP0
Also see Monster/Suicide/America
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-vGxe1eMmQ
Randalls Island Live edition. Black activists had taken over the small soccer stadium off harlem NY where the 3 day concert took place with the help of a number of white ny radicals and made it a free concert.
The song opens with their road manager explaining to some surly looking BPPs how they had to negotiate a pay cut with another venue they were booked at because they wanted to be THERE, and how much the band liked playing NY... Madison Square Garden... 
One of them says "This isnt Madison Square Garden its a political protest." 
He responds:
"If you'll allow me...  You'll find out thats EXACTLY what we're going to do.
Ps. The footage of the war and protests shown in the video are not added. It was the light show projected on the stage backdrop.
Later, when Leslie West and Mountain played, someone had accessed the score and announcing booth and raised the NLF flag over the stadium, and a good time was had by all.
Rr







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